NZ: Expert warns nuclear power is on the cards
Nuclear power stations may be operating in New Zealand, a country known for its anti-nuke stance, as soon as 2015 if coal continues to be shunned as a fuel source.
Electricity
Let A Thousand Reactors Bloom
Explosive growth has made the People’s Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on
earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy.
Energy shortage hits Chinese firms
“There are now restrictions forced on us. For two days a week we are not allowed to use any electricity and that means I have to send my workers home,” says Ms Dai.
Ready to Bet on Alternative Energy? Well, Think Again
Wall Street continues to ignore alternative energy sources which typically require huge infrastructure investment.
Tennessee Valley Authority loses millions on Mississippi power
The Tennessee Valley Authority recovered less than half of its $36 million investment in a failed power storage process in Mississippi.
Lights Out in the Dominican Republic
In recent months, the companies, led by AES, which is based in Arlington, Va., have occasionally cut off electricity to the nation’s distribution grid, contending that because the government has not paid its bills, they cannot import the natural gas and oil needed to fuel their operations. That decision has placed the companies at the center of a political and economic maelstrom over blackouts lasting as long as 20 hours a day.
US: Blackouts Are Inevitable, Coping, Not Prevention, Should Be the Primary Goal
In a large, complicated arrangement such as our system for generating, transmitting and distributing electricity, blackouts simply cannot be prevented.
UK: Wave energy test centre launched
A new centre to harness Scotland’s wave and tidal energy has been officially opened in Orkney by the Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace.
New Energy Age: Do We Really Mean It This Time?
Mark Braly reports from the German Government’s Renewables 2004 conference in Bonn, that “something else, not new but more urgently felt, was in the air at the conference. The expert consensus now holds that the peak of world oil production is near – if it has not already happened.”
Carbon negative energy to reverse global warming
Partisan report on potential for coproduction from biomass of charcoal for terra preta soil generation and hydrogen, ammonia and diesel.
Getting warm in the search for future energy supply
Once production peaks then it can’t meet demand and then prices will rise and it will be the equivalent of the oil shock in the 1970s. That will be a huge boost to renewables.
Puerto Rico: Energy Challenge
With the end of cheap oil on the horizon, Puerto Rico continues to move toward alternatives, but is it moving fast enough?